Hi there!
A huge welcome from all our trustees to our site for SASW Trust. Depending on who you are and how you ended up reading this, here's three sections that should help you find what you're after. Enjoy browsing!
Go to Charity Supporters & Volunteers
Charity Supporters & Volunteers
Enter our Charity Supporters & Volunteers section to find our news of our local work and the various ways to support, pray and join in.
Go to Schools Information, Bookings & Video Resources
Schools Information, Bookings & Video Resources
Enter our Schools Information, Bookings and Video Resources section for school staff to discover what we have to offer local primary and secondary schools.
Go to “Safe Space” – Dedicated Youth Site
“Safe Space” – Dedicated Youth Site
If you’re a young person who connects with our work (or would like to) through local Safe Spaces in schools, then select here to enter our dedicated youth site: safes.uk
New: Connect Kids Project for local church groups
About
We are a Scripture Union Local Mission Partner working in partnership with the Pais Movement, and set up in 1999 by churches and Christians in Southport and Formby, who wanted to serve their local schools.
For two decades, the majority of schools across Southport, Formby and surrounding areas have benefitted through assemblies, lessons, presentations and extra-curricular clubs and activities. These have been delivered by our employed schools worker, a team of local church volunteers, a Pais Project team of gap year apprentices, and most recently a part time sports ministry leader.
Our aim is to see this work continue, grow and develop through working in partnership with local schools and local churches, in order to see that great impact across Southport in the years to come, which is very much in our hearts and prayers.
For two decades, the majority of schools across Southport, Formby and surrounding areas have benefitted through assemblies, lessons, presentations and extra-curricular clubs and activities. These have been delivered by our employed schools worker, a team of local church volunteers, a Pais Project team of gap year apprentices, and most recently a part time sports ministry leader.
Our aim is to see this work continue, grow and develop through working in partnership with local schools and local churches, in order to see that great impact across Southport in the years to come, which is very much in our hearts and prayers.
“Light, Faith and Mission with an Emerging Generation”
- David Taberner, Schools Worker
Our Aims:
+ To contribute to the educational, moral and spiritual development of young people by working in partnership with teachers, youth leaders and other schools workers.
+ To work alongside teachers and their students to help develop an understanding of God’s presence and purpose in their lives.
+ To be a friend and resource to schools and colleges, Christian teachers and students.
+ To empower and equip young people to be a strong positive Christian influence in there schools.
In doing so the Trust will be:
+ Interdenominational
+ Representative of the churches in Southport & Formby.
OUR TEAM
We have a dynamic & active team, with a broad range of skills, coupled with a community of very generous volunteers.
David ”Tabz” Taberner
Schools Worker
David Taberner works full time for us and is also particularly involved in the Southport Methodist Circuit as a preacher as well as other churches and inter- church projects, such as Street Pastors, Christians Against Poverty, Sonfest and Southport Prayer. He’s been rather well educated in civil engineering and project management, but through a growing passion for young people and the Kingdom, he found a calling to our ministry five years ago. He also leads our local youth leaders’ forum, is a semi-pro musician, goes more casually by the name “Tabz”, and has a slightly characteristic hairstyle! (His wife is a lot cooler though!)
Hettie Taberner
“Good Sport” Coach and Programme Co-ordinator
Hettie Taberner is Tabz’s wife and moved to Southport in May 2017 taking up our post as pioneer of our Good
Secondary Schools
As Christian workers and volunteers, we aim to create a safe time and place in local schools to explore the big issues of life and faith.
We currently do this weekly through being a presence at lunchtimes, through our ‘Safe Space’ lunchtime drop-ins, with games, discussion, a ‘Three Minute Thought’ and online engagement.
We cover assemblies in high schools for various year groups on topics such as Love, Faith, Peer pressure, anti-bullying and so on. We often expand these topics into workshops, ran either by ourselves, or bought-in national Christian projects.
At times, we will be asked to cover lessons (usually RE) and look at a variety of topics from a Christian view – points such as “What is Christianity?” “Why is the Bible relevant today?”, etc.
Our charity staff have worked with numerous volunteers, apprentices from the Pais Movement, and local church youth workers in order to best serve the local secondary schools’ needs, working with them to boost their statuary provision of spritiual, moral, social and cultural education.
Our work in schools extends into the rest of the community through our network of churches and youth work throughout the area. We are keen to mobilise the local Church more in this way, and our two experienced workers are available to anyone who wishes to explore this further.
Sport Ministry. She is originally from Burnley, where she was a Kids Pastor for a large church alongside her Children In Need funded youth work job managing young volunteers on one of the 10 most deprived areas of the UK. Hettie is a qualified football coach, has played for two women’s teams, is a great singer, 83% extravert, and still manages to be way cooler than Tabz!
The Volunteers
Being incredible!
We couldn’t do what we do without an amazing bunch of people who volunteer upfront and behind the scenes to make the work of our charity so effective. Our vision is huge and needs to see the whole Church equipped to stretch across their communities to see this come to fruition.
Recent highlights from the team on social media:
NOW RELEASED: The story of pandemic & post-pandemic schools work (2021)![]()
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⏱⏱ For Such A Time As This ⏱⏱![]()
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Introducing our brand new short local documentary, which aims to encapsulate the story of children's and youth work professionals and volunteers serving Southport's young people on through the COVID pandemic - including a picture of pre-pandemic, the depths of lockdown, and a wealth of post-pandemic opportunities to support children and young people in the aftermath.![]()
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Join local youth workers, national youth work experts, Southport school staff, and a handful of young people themselves for Southport & Area Schools Worker Trust's latest production: "For Such A Time As This", as we look at incredibly valuable opportunity to make a much needed difference to a generation.![]()
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To find out more about the vision and work, visit our facebook page or our website!
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This short documentary aims to encapsulate the story of children's and youth work professionals and volunteers serving Southport's young people on through the COVID pandemic - including a picture of pre-pandemic, the depths of lockdown, and a wealth of post-pandemic opportunities to support children and young people in the aftermath.![]()
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Join local youth workers, national youth work experts, Southport school staff, and a handful of young people themselves for Southport & Area Schools Worker Trust's latest production: "For Such A Time As This", as we incredibly valuable opportunity to make a much needed difference to a generation.![]()
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To find out more about the vision and work, visit: ![]()
www . saswtrust . com![]()
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With special thanks to contributions from:![]()
Scripture Union, The Pais Movement, Hope Together, Lakeside Church, Churches Together in Ainsdale, St Philips School, Greenbank High School, Birkdale High School, Meols Cop High School, and the many incredible children and young people of Southport, UK.
2 weeks ago ·
One of last week's highlights from Hettie: "This week (and every week) we have had incredible people from local churches join us to work with children and young people through assemblies, Safe Space at lunchtimes, Sweaty Church and Impact Youth! We love partnering with local churches and we couldn't and wouldn't want to do this work without them."
2 weeks ago ·
One of last week's highlights from Tabz: "Hopefully some of our SASW Trust friends knew already that last Tuesday was a National Day of Prayer for Schools in the UK initiated by our wonderful friend Pete Baker. We loved being a part of it! Leading Southport's Tuesday Morning Ecumenical Prayer meeting was a real privilege, to enter into some real intercession and battle spiritually on our young people's behalf with the 40 or so prayer warriors gathered. I then got lead the opening devotions at a school governors meeting, where staff and governors got to reflect on how touching it was to know 1000s of people were praying up and down the country."
2 weeks ago ·
It's been so great to be out in the yard again at lunch this half term with our Safe Space Outdoors - making the most of the opportunities before the winter hits us! Some great conversations. Have you ever read about how it all started? -
Safe Spaces in the yard – Southport and Area Schools Worker Trust
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Safe Spaces in the yard Posted on August 27, 2021August 28, 2021 by Hettie Taberner After a year of predominantly online work, we had an incredible final term of the 2020-21 school year – after a ye...2 weeks ago ·